Re: Q: how to remove a project within the repository?

Aid Voigt - DSP Solutions <aid.voigt@dspsolutions.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question I could not find an answer until now and I hope you
> can help me.
>
> Is there a way to remove a project from the repository (let's say I
> imported a project by accident)? I mean really remove it, not having
> it not appearing?

No. The repository is designed to *never* lose information. At best,
you can remove things from HEAD, but they'll always exist in history.

Someday we'll have fancy tools to do what you want -- see issue #516,
'svn obliterate'. But it's a big bag of worms.

For now, you can 'svnadmin dump' the repository, edit the dumpfile to
remove all mention of a file or directory, then 'svnadmin load' the
data into a new repository. Someone is working on an 'svndumpfilter'
program right now to help with this sort of thing.

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Received on Thu Mar 20 14:07:10 2003